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Me Too is about exposing sexual abuse, rape and harassment, mainly in the workplace. However, there is a push to " take #MeToo where it hasn’t gone: to speak for the girls, boys, women, and men raped due to US Wars…"
“Abeer was 11 years old when the US invaded her country, Iraq, in 2003. Three years later a group of US soldiers planned her rape over a game of cards. They waited for the fall of night and invaded her family’s home. She endured hearing her parents and little sister being killed as she fought her rapists. In the second it took sweaty fingers to ignite a gun aimed at her head, young Abeer’s life was over.
Rape in US wars is not the deviance of a few bad apples, it is a documented strategy used by the US defense apparatus . When the rape and torture scandal at Abu Ghraib, the US run prison in Iraq, was exposed, Brig General Janis Karpinski admitted that this grade of rape and torture came directly from Military Intelligence, the CIA, and private contractors.”
"The atmosphere of rape savagery is all consuming in US war zones. The first American women to die after the invasion of Iraq was 19 yr old soldier Lavena Johnson who was found severely beaten, raped and murdered in a tent belonging to the defense contracting firm Kellogg Brown& Root (KBR). Also in 2005, defense contractors from the same firm raped and beat their female colleague so badly she had to have her breast implants removed. KBR continued to win competitive and lucrative contracts from the government following Lavena’s murder.
Rape cards—photographs of acts of rape were traded like baseball cards by US personnel in Iraq. "
When i brought up this question of including in the #MeToo movement, the sexual harassment and assault of women by American (and other) soldiers, I was told that this was not relevant because the culture of the army is not the culture of the business world. But this is not what the me too movement web page says. The web ;page says they are committed to disrupting all systems that allow sexual violence to flourish. And the military is one area where sexual violence has flourished in the past.
“Abeer was 11 years old when the US invaded her country, Iraq, in 2003. Three years later a group of US soldiers planned her rape over a game of cards. They waited for the fall of night and invaded her family’s home. She endured hearing her parents and little sister being killed as she fought her rapists. In the second it took sweaty fingers to ignite a gun aimed at her head, young Abeer’s life was over.
Rape in US wars is not the deviance of a few bad apples, it is a documented strategy used by the US defense apparatus . When the rape and torture scandal at Abu Ghraib, the US run prison in Iraq, was exposed, Brig General Janis Karpinski admitted that this grade of rape and torture came directly from Military Intelligence, the CIA, and private contractors.”
"The atmosphere of rape savagery is all consuming in US war zones. The first American women to die after the invasion of Iraq was 19 yr old soldier Lavena Johnson who was found severely beaten, raped and murdered in a tent belonging to the defense contracting firm Kellogg Brown& Root (KBR). Also in 2005, defense contractors from the same firm raped and beat their female colleague so badly she had to have her breast implants removed. KBR continued to win competitive and lucrative contracts from the government following Lavena’s murder.
Rape cards—photographs of acts of rape were traded like baseball cards by US personnel in Iraq. "
When i brought up this question of including in the #MeToo movement, the sexual harassment and assault of women by American (and other) soldiers, I was told that this was not relevant because the culture of the army is not the culture of the business world. But this is not what the me too movement web page says. The web ;page says they are committed to disrupting all systems that allow sexual violence to flourish. And the military is one area where sexual violence has flourished in the past.